They're so cute
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Look
The Look didn’t start with Sherlock, oh hell no. John was straight-up, no-nonsense way the fuck before he knew a certain cranky consulting detective.
The good doctor’s legendary look started the day he did rounds with his first batch of interns, the first time he was actually responsible for other people.
Years later, by the time he and Sherlock fell hard into one another’s orbit, The Look was without flaw and so evocative with Your shit? I’m taking precisely none of it, that within weeks Sherlock learned to 1) avoid it entirely and 2) court it constantly.
Because here’s the thing you have to know about John’s look: There’s nothing else he sees when he’s turned it on you. You are it. You’re everything.
So maybe that’s why Sherlock’s such an absolute dick when John’s not looking. Maybe that’s why he’ll talk too loud, offend a witness, kick Anderson’s beehive, just damn well stir shit up—because he wants that look turned on him, he wants to be everything John sees.
And when Sherlock pulls his Sherlock shit? Well John will look, of course he will, that’s how this works. Sherlock needs and John wants to be needed. That’s their balance. It may seem strange from the outside, unhinged on occasion, outright screwed-up, but know this: Whatever you think of whatever they’ve got, that thing goes beyond words and—there’s no other way to say it—into myth.
So Sherlock will strive, by any means necessary, to be worth looking at.
And John? Well, John’s going to damn well look.
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The second I saw Evankart’s artwork I figured this was the story it told. It is, isn’t it? I mean look at him. The screencap above provided by the ever-marvelous Aithine.
“You look lonely,” said the moon.
“Alone is not the same as lonely,” said the little boy, swinging his feet. “Not the same at all.”
“That is true,” agreed the moon, for she always spoke the truth. “And you are only one of those things.”
The little boy stopped swinging, for he was a clever little boy who often heard more than what was said. “I’m not alone here?” he queried, looking all around.
“You are not,” said the moon, glowing brighter with her words. “Your friend is waiting.”
“I don’t have friends,” dismissed the little boy, swinging his foot again. “And I don’t see anybody.”
“Then you’re not looking hard enough,” said the moon. “Perhaps you aren’t very good at it?”
The little boy scowled and sat up straighter in his swing. “I’m too good at it,” he replied, for there was a reason he was out here all by himself.
“Hmm,” said the moon. “Well, some looking is harder than others,” she acknowledged. “And finding a friend can be the hardest thing of all.”
“Who’d want me for a friend?” asked the little boy. “‘Only an idiot’, apparently.” He sniffed. “And why would I want to be friends with an idiot?”
“Oh, I see,” said the moon, her light dimming somewhat. “And do you believe everything that others tell you?” she asked. “Or only the things you fear to be true?”
The little boy fell silent. “What’s it to you, anyway?” he asked, after a while.
“Oh, nothing really,” said the moon. “You’ll meet one day, whatever happens - that much is written far above my orbit.”
“You’ve been up there for over four million millennia,” said the little boy, for he had not yet deleted astronomy. “Why do you care about a few human years?”
“The answer’s in the question,” replied the moon.
The little boy was quiet for a long time.
“Because you know what it means to be solitary,” he said.
And he jumped down from his swing.
Gorgeous artwork from xxxxxx6x, reposted in a group with kind permission. You can find the originals here: Sherlock / John / Together
Beatrix Cummerbund
My husband just referred to Benedict Cumberbatch as ‘Beatrix Cummerbund. That famous 1930s crime writer and lesbian.’
I want to write that now.
George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.
George Takei is flawfree.
GEORGE TAKEI I LOVE YOU
I have said it before. If you do not love George Takei, you are wrong.
tumblr i hit some kind of emotional peak around tuesday this week
and i keep trying to draw silly requests but all i’ve managed to do is awkwardly over render sherlock’s torso
someone please take my emotions i don’t want them anymore
doctorawkward: Can’t stop thinking about Sherlock learning Judo! Can you draw him in martial arts uniform? <3 <3
The amount of fucks he is NOT giving on the last two gifs is astounding
I love this man.
(Source: sandandglass)
I don’t know what Eurovision is but it sounds like Europe’s Hunger Games
that’s it
that is literally what it is
My husband says Eurovision is the Hunger Games with fewer stabbings and more sequins plus a wind machine.
